![]() ![]() There are three narrators, all of them girls of a marriageable age, one poor, one in the process of becoming comfortably well off, and one rich. This was just the kind of book I needed, to give me hope in a cynical September. The ending is so lovely that I stayed up much too late to reach it with my eyes leaking. Promises, debts, and thanks are beside the point when true love, the safety of one’s own family, and the welfare of entire countries are on the table. By the end, however, the cynicism is gone. It’s a fairy tale, part Rumplestiltskin, as the beginning makes clear, telling a cynical version of the tale having to do with getting out of paying your debts. ![]() Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik, is set in the same long-ago Russian-flavored world as Uprooted. ![]()
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